Penn Badgley has said he agrees with viewers who are no longer interested in shows that aspire to “excess and wealth” such as Gossip Girl.
Badgley was most recently seen as a psychopathic bookseller in Netflix’s You, while Crawford plays a superhero in Amazon’s The Boys.
And I think rightfully so. Now they’re interested in deconstructing why we’re so fascinated with that in the first place… interested in deconstructing those systems of privilege.”
The actor starred in the teen drama from 2007 to 2012 as Dan Humphrey, a misfit among rich kids in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.